Browsing: Ryan McDonagh

Post-game notes & quotes courtesy of the NYR: Rangers 3, Flyers 2 (OT). Click here for boxscore with links to Game Summary, etc. – HOME COOKING – The Rangers have won nine of the last 10 preseason games they have played at Madison Square Garden (9-1-0), dating back to…

[polldaddy poll=9099753 align=”left”] Preseason Game 5. Flyers at Rangers. With the preseason mercifully dwindling, Alain Vigneault is still juggling and experimenting. So tonight against Mr. Snider’s Team, at least at the start, Rick Nash will skate on the right with Derek Stepan and Chris Krieder. J.T. Miller slides to…

[polldaddy poll=9094322 align=”left”] Preseason Game 3. Rangers at Bruins. ICYMI, the Rangers will practice at West Point’s Tate Rink on Oct. 5-6, and the Oct. 5, 11 a.m. practice will be open to the public. They will then fly to Chicago for the Oct. 7 opener (and Stanley Cup banner…

Pre-game notes courtesy of the NYR: NEW YORK RANGERS at BOSTON BRUINS Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015, 7:00 p.m. ET TD Garden – Boston, MA Rangers: 1-1-0 (2 pts) Bruins: 2-0-0 (4 pts) TONIGHT’S GAME The Rangers play their third game of the 2015-16 preseason against the Boston Bruins in an Original…

The Rangers are in Boston tonight for preseason Game 3 and Mats Zuccarello, Henrik Lundqvist, Rick Nash, Ryan McDonagh, Derick Brassard and Dan Boyle are expected to make their preseason debuts. Join us for “It’s Go Time!” this evening. The Rangers also announced today that they will practice at West…

Click here for the boxscore with links to the game summary, etc. Thoughts: 1) Is the preseason almost over? Funny how you look forward to hockey all these months, and conveniently forget how choppy and disjointed these games are. Remember when preseason games were just a string of fights interrupted…

Click here to read my game story and the post-game notes & quotes (or scroll down one thread). Click here for the boxscore with links to the game summary, etc. Click here for Alain Vigneault’s post-game press conference video. Thoughts: 1) Not terrible for a preseason game. But definitely a…

The Rangers get back to work officially today, with on-ice fitness testing at their training facility in Greenburgh, then get into full training camp mode Saturday, and then go right into the preseason Monday at the Garden. Click here for the training camp roster. The new motto, or at least…

“Who’s gonna be The Man?” By jpp What do you ask of a team that has been to the Final Four three out of the last four years, a team that’s won 214 games since the start of the 2011-2012 season? A team that has played 12 playoff series, winning…

GREENBURGH — Mats Zuccarello said he felt “awful” during a scrimmage Tuesday as most of the Rangers players skated in pre-camp voluntary workouts. But it was a good awful. It was rust and timing issues, and nothing to do with the frightening head injury he suffered in the first round…

The goalies, not listed above, are Brandon Halverson and Jacob Smith. From the NYR: RANGERS ANNOUNCE ROSTER FOR 2015 TRAVERSE CITY TOURNAMENT The annual prospect tournament is set to begin on September 11 NEW YORK, August 31, 2015 – Today, the New York Rangers announced their roster for the 2015…

Confirming a report here a few weeks ago, Rangers coach Alain Vigneault told NHL.com Friday that winger Mats Zuccarello is “100 percent cleared” for training camp. Zuccarello suffered a concussion and skull injury, and some memory loss and vision problems, when he was hit in the head by a Ryan…

Top 10 Reasons Winning the Presidents’ Trophy Rocks By Jeff Yerger Why do we like hockey? What is it about this silly game that entices us? The easy answer, of course, is that we get joy from seeing our team win. Yet, for the die-hards … like us … it’s…

Rangers captain Ryan McDonagh is among the honorees at the Centennial Burke Award reception Tuesday at the Pierre hotel in Manhattan. McDonagh will be honored along with stroke survivor Brad Berman and his wife, Jessica, who have raised more than $600,000 for Burke Rehabilitation Hospital’s Lower Limb Robotics Program through…

(Editor’s note: Special thanks to Paul Calderazzo for stepping up and volunteering this report card on the Rangers’ season and playoffs. If anybody wants to do a guest blog during the offseason, just drop me an email at rcarpini@lohud.com. Thank you. — Carp). ******************************************************** New York Rangers 2014-15 Grades by…

For transcripts of a bunch of “breakup day” interviews scroll to the previous thread. My stories from lohud.com GREENBURGH – The head injury suffered by Rangers winger Mats Zuccarello in Game 5 of the first playoff series against Pittsburgh was worse than originally believed … though not as bad as…

Sorry for the delay, but I typed these out and it took a while … will post my story and notebook in the morning. Here are some of the interviews with more to come later on. From breakup day: Mats Zuccarello: “The doctors say I’m going to be fine, just…

My story from lohud.com: This 2014-15 version of the Rangers was the best team the franchise has had since 1993-94, which was the best team the franchise has had in the modern era, if not ever. The 1993-94 Rangers had the best record in the league and won the only…

Click here for a great photo gallery by Frank Becerra Jr. Click here to read my column on another failed season for Henrik Lundqvist. Click here to read Josh Thomson’s game story from Game 7. Click here to see Josh’s notebook, about Ryan McDonagh’s broken foot, etc. Click here for…